Born on June 10 1939 died on February 02 2020
The artist Claudio Martinesi was born on June 10th 1939 in La Spezia, Italy. He died in his home town during the Covid-19-Pandemic, on February 02nd 2020. Martinesi is self-taught: his fundamental teacher was the profound knowledge of Eastern philosophy that opened him up the roads in search of his being and nature: He discovered secrets that he then revealed on his canvases, infusing them colors and the forms of the unconscious. Martinesi has successfully participated in various exhibitions obtaining not only the consent of the critics, but also the Zeny Prize, at the International of Rimini.His bibliographic data and his quotations can be found at: Art – International Market – The Art Encyclopedia: Centauro – 2 Volume – Publisher Panepinto
In Martinesi’s paintings is she, the woman, the figure with plastic lines and romantic tones is always the protagonist of his paintings. It is the warm and elegant color that emphasizes this figure, finally transforming itself into ever more intense forms, which are concretized in the world and which are concretized in ideas that he loves, and this in such a beautiful synthesis of man and nature, that through this he is able to overcome all reality through figure and color. And that is why his nude pictures appear so pure, also so violent, and they flow from the inside of the painter in a strangely chromatic transparency and transport us into a romantic sphere.
The nude pictures suddenly appear from an unreal space, as symbols of freedom that wants to be stronger than the turmoil of a violent society. That freedom that symbolizes the inner being of the woman, who has come so far to assert her essence, but which is repeatedly ridiculed and which has sometimes suffered violence.The painter’s sensitivity has a magical effect. It can rise from the dust of the sidewalk into a surrealistic dimension and at the same moment it can depict the drama of everyday life again, the search for identity in exaggerated indifference.And then above all the existential suffering for itself, for art that wants to be superior to everyday life and banality. All of this is revealed with the vivid red tones. With
the light blue tones sometimes transparent, sometimes mysterious with the elegant green.Claudio Martinesi has shown such an original side of the human being in his art that will definitely last among us forever.